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Secrets reveal'd, or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the King containing the greatest treasure in chymistry never yet so plainly discovered / composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself anonymus or Eyræneus Philaletha cosmopolita ... ; published for the benefit of all Englishmen by W.C., Esq., a true lover of art and nature.
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Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
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obtain an excellent powerful fixity It is evident therefore that the whole Secret consists in ☿ of which a Philosopher saith There is in ☿ whatever the Wiseman seeks concerning which Geber saith Praised be the Most High who hath created our ☿ and hath given it a nature overcoming all things For verily if that were not the Alchymist's might boast as they will but their Work of Alchymy would be vain 'T is likewise evident it is not the vulgar ☿ but the Sophick because every vulgar ☿ is a Male that is corporeal specificate and dead but ours is spiritual feminine living and vivifying Attend therefore to those things that I shall speak of ☿ for as the Philosopher saith Our ☿ is the Salt of the Wisemen without which whosoever operates is like an Archer that shoots without a Bow-string and yet it is no where to be found upon the Earth but our ☉ is formed by us not by creation but by extracting him out of those things in which he is Nature co-operating in a wonderful manner by a witty Art CHAP. 2. Of the Principles composing the ☿ Sophical THe Intention of some Operators in this Art is this They purge ☿ diversly for by the adjoyning of Salts they sublime it some do vivifie it from various Faeces others only per se and so by these repeated Operations they think to make the ☿ of the Philosophers They erre because they do not operate in Nature for she amends things only in their own nature Let them therefore know that our Water is compounded of many things but yet they are but one thing made of divers created substances of one essence that is to say There is requisite in our Water first of all Fire secondly the Liquor of the Vegetable Saturnia thirdly the bond of ☿ The Fire is of a Mineral Sulphur and yet is not properly Mineral nor Metalline but a middle betwixt a Mineral and a Metal and neither of them partaking of both a Chaos or Spirit because our Fiery Dragon who overcomes all things is notwithstanding penetrated by the odour of the Vegetable Saturnia whose blood concretes or grows together with the juyce of Saturnia into one wonderful body yet it is not a body because it is all Volatile nor a Spirit because in the Fire it resembles a Molten Metal It is therefore in very deed a Chaos which is related to all Metals as a Mother for out of it I know how to extract all things even ☉ and ☽ without the transmuting Elixir the which thing whosoever doth also see may be able to testifie it This Chaos is called our Arsenick our Air our ☽ our Magnet our Chalybs or Steel but yet in divers respects because our Matter undergoes various states before that the Kingly Diadem be brought or cast forth out of the Menstruum of our Harlot Therefore learn to know who the Companions of Cadmus are and what that Serpent is which devoured them what the hollow Oak is which Cadmus fastened the Serpent through and through unto Learn what Diana's Doves are which do vanquish the Lion by asswaging him I say the Green Lion which is in very deed the Babylonian Dragon killing all things with his Poyson Then at length learn to know the Caducean Rod of Mercury with which he worketh Wonders and what the Nymphs are which he infects by Incantation if thou desirest to enjoy thy wish CHAP. 3. Of the Chalybs of the Sophists THe Wife Magi have delivered many things of their Chalybs to Posterity nor is it a slight thing they have attributed thereto and therefore the contention amongst vulgar Alchymists is great as touching what is to be understood by the name of Chalybs Several men have given several interpretations of this thing The Author of the New Light hath writ thereof candidly but obscurely For my part that I may not out of envy conceal any thing from the Inquirers of this Art I will sincerely describe it Our Chalybs is the true Key of our Work without which the Fire of the Lamp could not be by any Art kindled it is the Minera of Gold a Spirit very pure beyond others it is an infernal Fire secret in its kind most highly volatile the Miracle of the World a Systeme of the superior virtues in the inferiors and therefore the Omnipotent hath marked it with that notable Sign whose Nativity is declared in the East The Wisemen saw it in the East and were amazed presently knew that a most Serene King was born into the World Thou when thou beholdest his Star follow him even to his Cradle there shalt thou see a fair Infant by removing the defilements honour the Kingly Child open the Treasury offer the gift of Gold so at length after death he will give thee his Flesh and Blood the highest Medicine in the three Monarchies of the Earth CHAP. 4. Of the Magnet of the Sophists EVen as Steel is drawn to the Loadstone and the Magnet doth of its own accord convert it self to the Chalybs even so the Magnet of the Sophi draweth their Chalybs therefore I have taught that the Chalybs is the Minera of Gold In like manner our Magnet is the true Minera of our Chalybs Furthermore I declare that our Magnet hath an occult Centre abounding with Salt which Salt is the Menstruum in the Sphere of the Moon which knows how to calcine Sol this Centre doth convert it self to the Pole with an Archetick Appetite in which the virtue of the Chalybs is exalted into Degrees In the Pole is the Heart of ☿ which is a true Fire in which is the rest and quiet of his Lord sailing through this great Sea that it may arrive to both the Indies and direct its course by the aspect of the North-Sar which our Magnet will cause to appear to thee The Wiseman will rejoyce but the Fool will disesteem these things nor will he learn Wisdom even though he behold the Central Pole turned outwards marked with the notable Sign of the Omnipotent They are so stiff-necked that though they see even Signs and Miracles yet will they not lay aside their Sophistications nor enter into the right Path. CHAP. 5. The Chaos of the Sophi LEt the Son of the Philosophers hearken to the Sophi unanimously concluding that this Work is to be likened to the Creation of the Universe Therefore In the Beginning God Created the Heaven and the Earth and the Earth was void and empty and Darkness were upon the face of the Deep and the Spirit of the Lord was carried upon the face of the Waters and God said Let there be Light and there was Light These words are sufficient for a Son of Art for the Heaven ought to be conjoyned with the Earth upon the bed of Friendship and Love so shall he honourably Reign all his Life The Earth is an heavy body the Matrix of Minerals because it keeps them occultly in it self although it brings to light Trees and Animals It
is the Heaven wherein the great Lights together with the Stars are rowled about and it sendeth down its virtues through the Air unto inferior things but in the Beginning all being confounded together made a Chaos Behold I have holily opened to them the truth for our Chaos is as 't were a Mineral Earth in respect of its own coagulation and yet notwithstanding it is indeed volatile Air whithin which the Heaven of the Philosophers is in its Centre which Centre is truly Astral shining upon the Earth with its Beams even to the very superficies And what great one is this that is so wise as to gather from these things that a new King is born more powerful than all the rest a Redeemer of his Brethren from original Defilements for 't was expedient that he died to be exalted aloft that he might give his Flesh and Blood for the Life of the World Good God! How wonderful are these thy Works 'T is thy doing and it seems miraculous in our eyes Father I thank thee that thou hast hidden these things from the Wise and revealed them to Babes CHAP. 6. The Air of the Sophists THe wide Circuit or Firmament called in the Holy Writ Air is likewise called our Chaos and yet not without a great Secret because as the Firmamental Air is the separator of the Waters even so is our Air. Our Work is therefore verily a System of the greater World because as the Waters under the Firmament are to be seen and do appear to us who live upon the Earth but the superior Waters do flie our sight because they are so far distant from us even so is it in our Microcosm the Waters are the Minerals without the Centre these appear but those that are inclosed within do shun our sight and yet really and truly are These are those Waters that the Author of the New Light speaks of viz. Which are and do not appear untill the Artist pleaseth Therefore even as the Air distinguisheth between the Waters so doth our Air prohibit all manner of ingress of the extracentrical waters unto the waters that are in the Centre for should they but enter in and be mixed then would they presently close together with an indissoluble union therefore I say that the external vapours and burning 🜠doth stiffly adhere to our Chaos whose tyranny it being not able to resist the pure flies away from the Fire in the form of a dry powder If thou knewest how to water this dry earth with a water of its own kind thou wilt loosen the pores of the earth and this outward Thief with the workers of Malice will be cast out of doors and the water will be purged by the addition of a true Sulphur from Leprous Defilements and from superfluous Hydropical Moisture and thou shalt have in thy power the Fountain of Count Trevisan whose waters are properly dedicated to Diana the Virgin This Thief is evil armed with arsenical Malignitie whom the winged Youngster doth abhor and flie from and although the central water be his Bride yet the Youngster dares not utter his most ardent Love towards her because of the snares of the Thief whose tricks are almost inavoidable In this let Diana be propitious unto thee who knows how to tame the wild Beasts whose two Doves shall temperate the malignity of the Air with their feathers then the Youth enters easily in through the pores presently shaking the waters above and stirrs up a rude and rubish Cloud do thou bring in the water over him even to the brightness of the Moon and so the darkness which was upon the face of the Abyss will be discussed by the Spirit which moves it self in the waters thus by the Command of God Light shall appear separate the Light from the Darkness the seventh time and then this Sophick Creating of thy ☿ shall be complete and the seventh day shall be to thee a Sabbath of Rest from which time even to a Years Revolution must you expect the Generation of the Son of the supernatural Sun who will come into the World at the end of the Ages that he may free his Brethren from al Defilements CHAP. 7. Of the first Operation of the Preparation of the Sophick Mercury by the Flying Eagles BRother You are to know that our exact knowledge of the Eagles of the Philosophers is conceived and judged to be the first degree of perfection for to know it there is required a quick ingenuity For do not believe that this Science comes to any of us by chance or a casual imagination as the common ignorant people do stupidly believe but we have sweated much and a long time we have passed many nights without sleep we have undergone much labour and sweat that we might obtain the truth and therefore O studious Beginner Know of certainty without labour and sweat thou wilt accomplish nothing viz. in the first Work although in the second Nature alone performs the Work without any imposition of hands only using a moderate external Fire Understand therefore Brother the sayings of the Sophi when they write That their Eagles are to be brought to devour the Lion the which Eagles how much the sparinger the number is so much the greater wrestling and a slow victory but the work is most excellently perfected in the seventh or ninth number The ☿ Sophical namely is the Bird of Hermes which is sometimes called a Goose sometimes a Pheasant one while this thing another while that but wherever the Magi speak of their Eagles they speak in the plural number and they assign their number from three to ten yet they are not to be understood thus as if they would have so many weights or parts of the water to one of the earth but you must interpret their sayings to be meant of the intrinsecal weight that is to say you must take the water so oftentimes acuated or sharpened as they number Eagles which acuation is made by sublimation and therefore every sublimation of the ☿ of Philosophers let be one Eagle and the seventh will so exalt the ☿ that it will become a most convenient Bath for thy King Therefore that thou mayest have this knot well unfolded attend diligently Let there be taken of our Fiery Dragon which hides the Magical Chalybs in his own belly four parts of our Magnet nine parts mix them together with a torrid Vulcan or great Fire in the form of a Mineral water upon which there will swim a scum which is to be cast away remove the shell and take the kernel purge it the third time with Fire and Salt which will easily be done if Saturn shall have beheld himself in the Looking-glass of Mars thence is made the Chamaeleon or our Chaos in which all Arcana's lies hid virtually but not actually This is the Hermaphroditical Infant which even from his very first Infancy hath been infected by the biting of the Corascene Mad Dog whereby he is besotted and distracted by a